markem 12:30 PM 04-16-2009
Never smoked on a plane, but ....
why I remember during the Blitz being on watch in the dirigibles (please don't call them 'balloons'!) keeping a watch for the Hun. We'd be tethered 300-400 meters up by a couple of metal cables designed to give their old kites the ol' one-two. Well, back then, you were just amazed if you lived to see the dawn, so we thought nothing of smoking 2, maybe 3 cigars a night. Those were the days! A couple of good smokes in your jacket pocket, an extra scarf and a thermos of coffee against the cold and duty for your country in your heart. Ah to be young again. Of course, it helped to do a couple hits of acid before going up so that you didn't chite your pants and all.
They made a documentary about that time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rKYL0tW-Ek
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pnoon 12:31 PM 04-16-2009
Originally Posted by thebiglebowski:
we need someone really old, like pnoon, to chime in about the good old days flying on prop planes and smoking dunhills!
(i am SO just kidding!!!)
you are SO just banned!!!
:-)
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rack04 12:35 PM 04-16-2009
If I remember correctly you don't have to be as old as Peter to have experienced a cigar on a plane. You could smoke on international flights in the 90's. Although I was to young then.
:-)
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landhoney 12:36 PM 04-16-2009
Originally Posted by N2Advnture:
but I'll be smoking when Klugsy takes me up in his private helicopter at the Shack Herf. :-)
~Mark
Forgive my noobishness, but is this for real?
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pnoon 12:45 PM 04-16-2009
Originally Posted by landhoney:
Forgive my noobishness, but is this for real?
You are forgiven.
:-)
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markem 12:50 PM 04-16-2009
Originally Posted by landhoney:
Forgive my noobishness, but is this for real?
It's a joke. Dave's helicopter is open air, so smoking would be hard. Damn him and his love of convertibles.
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leasingthisspace 12:56 PM 04-16-2009
WildBlueSooner 12:59 PM 04-16-2009
Originally Posted by leasingthisspace:
Kinda like this? :-):-):-)
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Close...that one was too expensive for him, so he got this one
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kydsid 09:25 AM 04-17-2009
I have. It takes the edge off of flying for 6 hours in a Beaver.
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mrreindeer 09:36 AM 04-17-2009
Originally Posted by Scottw:
Not yet but when my plane gets back from the shop (horn is broken). I'll be sure to!
Love this thread.
:-):-)
Originally Posted by tobii3:
Didn't AL smoke when he was flying his pet Pterodactyl???
Originally Posted by replicant_argent:
Yeah, on my Dassault Falcon 7X. I sip my rare and fine beverages, partake of my oh so very rare and aged Cuban stock, (that you plebians can't afford) and look haughtily down upon those less fortunate while on my way to the Monaco GP.
:-)
Pete, you too? We have so much in common.
Originally Posted by WildBlueSooner:
Never smoked on a plane but did see...
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Epic.
:-)
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Starscream 01:40 PM 04-17-2009
My uncle has a Cessna (sp) and a Piper Cub. I'll ask but dont' think he'll let me smoke in either one.
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Boomer 02:28 PM 04-17-2009
I smoked a cigar on a Douglas DC-7 back in 1966 or so going to Chicago. Not long after that, they banned cigars and pipes and made it cigarettes only. Yeah, you have to have gray hair to remember that.
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mosesbotbol 08:01 PM 04-18-2009
I wonder if they allow cigar smoking in fractional ownship scenarios?
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adampc22 08:11 PM 04-18-2009
i smoked on a plane (as in lots of flat grass) but never in a plane lol
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Partagaspete 04:47 AM 04-19-2009
Originally Posted by adampc22:
i smoked on a plane (as in lots of flat grass) but never in a plane lol
So you h ave smoked on a plain but not on a plane.
:-)
When I was a Crew Chief back in the mid to late 80's I know a few of the crew members smoked small cigars because other crew members hated it. I don't think they were allowed to smoke on them anymore but nobody narc'd them oout.
T
T
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Tenor CS 06:23 AM 04-19-2009
Originally Posted by Starchild:
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Insert "Midnight Express" theme music here.
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
Do you like gladiator movies?
... and other unsuccessful pickup lines.
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ratpack 07:52 AM 04-19-2009
Surely your not serious, and stop calling me Shirley.
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The Professor 08:08 AM 04-19-2009
Originally Posted by kydsid:
I have. It takes the edge off of flying for 6 hours in a Beaver.
god ... I haven't been in a beaver for 6 hours since college.
:-)
sorry ... I couldn't help myself
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rack04 09:16 AM 04-19-2009
Originally Posted by The Professor:
god ... I haven't been in a beaver for 6 hours since college.
:-)
sorry ... I couldn't help myself
Sounds like a personal problem Dokk.
:-)
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GreekGodX 11:04 AM 04-19-2009
The only times I was on a plane and smoking was allowed was in '98. I was in Greece taking a domestic flight from Athens to Thesaloniki. Olympic airlines allowed you to smoke and the plane stunk because everyone was smoking cigarettes.
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